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ROOFLESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does roofless mean?
• ROOFLESS (adjective)
The adjective ROOFLESS has 2 senses:
1. not having a roof
2. physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security
Familiarity information: ROOFLESS used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not having a roof
Context example:
the hurricane left hundreds of house roofless
Antonym:
roofed (covered with a roof; having a roof as specified (often used in combination))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security
Synonyms:
dispossessed; homeless; roofless
Context example:
made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another
Similar:
unfortunate (not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune)
Context examples
There could not well be more ink splashed about it, if it had been roofless from its first construction, and the skies had rained, snowed, hailed, and blown ink through the varying seasons of the year.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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